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Saturday, May 18, 2013

What is Linguistics?


What is Linguistics?
LINGUISTICS is the scientific study of human language. There are many approaches to the study of language, emphasizing different scientific traditions and aspects of the subject. Two broad divisions are the following:
1.      Theoretical Linguistics: the study of the structural properties of language, e.g., the rules or constraints that govern the formation and interpretation of words and sentences in the world's languages.
2.      Experimental and Applied Linguistics: the study of language in relation to a wide range of other fields of inquiry, from neuroscience and psychology, to language learning and teaching, to anthropology, geography and sociology.


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